"I am half-Austrian and have--if you so will--a very special esthetical relationship with those cars," he told a German publication last year. The New York-based comedian owns such rarities as a 1973 Porsche 911 RSR and a 1949 Gmuend Porsche; he has compared other high-end sports cars to cheesy Halloween costumes while "a Porsche feels like a warm, round pebble in your hand...very humanistic."

There may have been something lost in translation there, though surely the sentiment is accurate.

But the $40 million man knows plenty about a lot of other cars, too. And he has created an Internet show to demonstrate. Earlier today Seinfeld launched a website and short trailer (above) for a coming interview series called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Details remain vague, but if the trailer is any indication it'll feature Seinfeld in conversations with Ricky Gervais, Michael Richards, Alec Baldwin, Larry David and Colin Quinn, among others.

According to Richard Greenfield, an analyst for BTIG Research, distribution will be solely via Seinfeld’s new website, the Crackle channel via YouTube and Crackle.com. (This is becoming a thing, as my colleague Jeff Bercovici writes: Other celebs like Julia Stiles and Will Farrell have done similarly direct-to-web work.)

Odds are Seinfeld's show won't touch the millions Jay Leno reaches every month with his Jay Leno's Garage, but with an obvious title and implied "show about nothing" premise, it could be delightfully droll. Here's hoping.